FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)
REVENUES PROFITS
1 MetLife 35 46,983 19 4,714 71
2 Prudential Financial 64 31,708 12 3,540 57
3 AFLAC 151 14,363 8 1,483 14
4 UnumProvident 229 10,437 -2 514 N.A.
5 Principal Financial 261 9,010 3 919 11
6 Assurant 306 7,498 1 479 37
7 Lincoln National 396 5,488 2 831 18
8 Pacific Life 441 4,840 -2 543 1
9 Conseco 472 4,327 0 325 10
10 Jefferson-Pilot 478 4,220 3 579 6
11 Torchmark 596 3,126 2 495 6
12 Unitrin 608 3,048 0 256 6
13 American National Ins. 609 3,046 6 236 -8
14 Phoenix 666 2,609 -5 108 26
15 StanCorp Financial 731 2,337 9 211 6
16 Minnesota Life Ins. 748 2,269 8 185 33
17 UICI 773 2,123 3 204 26
18 Protective Life 774 2,109 6 247 5
19 AmerUs Group 925 1,615 0 191 -1
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
How the states stack up
Texas 56
New York 55
California 52
Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our 2006 ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
FedEx 212,241
Intel 48,655
Starbucks 91,056
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
Best investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Petroleum Refining 60.7%
Mining, Crude-Oil Production 53.6%
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 51.6%
Women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies
Andrea JungThere are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies this year than there were last year. Currently, 10 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women (up from 9 last year), and a total of 20 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job (up from 19). (more)

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